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The Food Chain

What is food chain? • It is a process in which energy gets transferred from one organism to another. • Therefore, each organisms in a food chain is dependent on the next organism for its food.

Producers • Producers are the starting point of a food chain. • Organisms that can make their own food (energy) are called producers. The plant kingdom makes up the producers.

• Every food chain involves the Sun. All energy comes from the Sun and plants make food with that energy. This process is known as photosynthesis. • Plants are eaten by other organisms to get energy. They get nutrition from it.

Producers Sun Human Being Bug Chicken

Consumers • Consumers are the next link in a food chain. • They are animals that eat plants (producers) and other animals. • Humans are at the end of the food chain. They eat both plants and animals. Hence, they are consumers too.

Rabbit Grass Fox The food chain begins with a plant. The plant is eaten by a rabbit. The rabbit is then eaten by a larger animal, fox. Both the rabbit and the fox, in this food chain, are called consumers.

Decomposers • Decomposers are the last link in the food chain. • They break down/ decompose the dead bodies into nutrients and return it to the soil. The producers use these nutrients from the soil to make their own food. • The food chain begins all over again.

• If any one level from the food chain is removed, the whole ecosystem will collapse. • There are more than 100, 000 different types of decomposers.

Links of the food chain

Examples of Food Chain…

Deer Plants Lion